Hi Captains and Admirals: Well, many of us are about half way through the winter lay-up stage of our yearly sailing schedule. Like you I have my list of maintenance and upgrade projects and I am trying to match money and costs with little success. The good news is that insurance, dockage, and towing insurance costs did not go up but Winter Dream’n is about to undergo some serious maintenance after nine seasons in the water. I’ll tell you more in the May issue.
You probably just received the February issue of Mainsheet Magazine. Were you just a little envious of two of our southern 310 sailors with their boats in the water? And our Technical Editor Bill Lewis wrote a great article on one of his favorite destinations and included some cool pictures. We hope to have articles and pictures like these in every issue of Mainsheet. The more good articles we have in our association section as well as in Bill Lewis’s technical section the more interest we create in our 310s as one of the best Catalina models. This ultimately leads higher demand on the used boat market and from a purely selfish standpoint higher value should you decide to sell or trade-in in the future. And, most importantly ideas and hints on how to enjoy our Catalina 310s even more.
I will be putting together the content for the May issue of Mainsheet over the next month. My deadline for submission will be March 10th. So, please send me any news, thoughts, plans and neat things you have done with or to your Catalina 310. Sections that we have started with in the past issues include the following but any articles are welcome.
Destinations and Eye Candy– a great chance to tell us all about that great (or from hell) destination you visited in past sailing seasons – story and pictures
KISS (or, how to keep the Admiral happy without a lot of work or expense) – how did you improve your on-board quality of life in a novel, simple, and inexpensive way to the rave reviews of the Admiral
Burgees in Paradise – get a picture of your s/v flying the 310 Association burgee (sometimes hard to photograph but we’ll believe you) in some exotic (or not so) port, dockage or anchorage – send me a digital picture (as large a format as possible) along with name, boat name and a description of the location. Note if you don’t have a burgee you can order one from the association website at www.catalina310.org . If you have a photo or a great idea for a photo that might be cover quality one tip is that it must be vertical.
Goodbye to winter - I am trying to piece together a collage of winter storage pictures with covers, tarps, shrink wrap, snow, etc. Please send your digital photos with your name, boat name, hull number and location city, state, marina and when I get a critical mass it goes in the magazine.
Thoughts and Musings – Your thoughts about your boat and your sailing adventures or lack of same. Be as creative as you want and get your byline in our great magazine.
Thanks for your help.
Regards and good sailing
Bob James
Mainsheet 310 IAAssociation Editor
1826 Glenn Ave
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: 614.481.6744
bob@advancedreading.com
Winter Dream'n #118
You probably just received the February issue of Mainsheet Magazine. Were you just a little envious of two of our southern 310 sailors with their boats in the water? And our Technical Editor Bill Lewis wrote a great article on one of his favorite destinations and included some cool pictures. We hope to have articles and pictures like these in every issue of Mainsheet. The more good articles we have in our association section as well as in Bill Lewis’s technical section the more interest we create in our 310s as one of the best Catalina models. This ultimately leads higher demand on the used boat market and from a purely selfish standpoint higher value should you decide to sell or trade-in in the future. And, most importantly ideas and hints on how to enjoy our Catalina 310s even more.
I will be putting together the content for the May issue of Mainsheet over the next month. My deadline for submission will be March 10th. So, please send me any news, thoughts, plans and neat things you have done with or to your Catalina 310. Sections that we have started with in the past issues include the following but any articles are welcome.
Destinations and Eye Candy– a great chance to tell us all about that great (or from hell) destination you visited in past sailing seasons – story and pictures
KISS (or, how to keep the Admiral happy without a lot of work or expense) – how did you improve your on-board quality of life in a novel, simple, and inexpensive way to the rave reviews of the Admiral
Burgees in Paradise – get a picture of your s/v flying the 310 Association burgee (sometimes hard to photograph but we’ll believe you) in some exotic (or not so) port, dockage or anchorage – send me a digital picture (as large a format as possible) along with name, boat name and a description of the location. Note if you don’t have a burgee you can order one from the association website at www.catalina310.org . If you have a photo or a great idea for a photo that might be cover quality one tip is that it must be vertical.
Goodbye to winter - I am trying to piece together a collage of winter storage pictures with covers, tarps, shrink wrap, snow, etc. Please send your digital photos with your name, boat name, hull number and location city, state, marina and when I get a critical mass it goes in the magazine.
Thoughts and Musings – Your thoughts about your boat and your sailing adventures or lack of same. Be as creative as you want and get your byline in our great magazine.
Thanks for your help.
Regards and good sailing
Bob James
Mainsheet 310 IAAssociation Editor
1826 Glenn Ave
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: 614.481.6744
bob@advancedreading.com
Winter Dream'n #118